Metaphysics of Presence

Persistent attribute
Eternal truths
Temporal existence

The power and mystery of the ocean opens a realm of aesthetic engagement.

“The nature of experience can be understood only by noting that it includes an active and a passive element peculiarly combined.” – John Dewey

Caution

Power compels
Ready audience
Spatial implications

Temporary visual interruptions serve to mark potential dangers.

“Movement in our mental life can only take place when an appropriate goal has been chosen.” – Alfred Adler

Concept Expression

Natural symptom
Invented signal
Articulation function

Selecting and exploiting a sheer sensory experience profoundly expresses the emotion of being in a specific place.

“We may, of course, look for any kind of expression we like, and there is even a fair chance that, whatever it be, we shall find it.” – Susanne K. Langer

Covering

Actual entity
Component participant
Prehensive novelty

Backyard swimming pools fall into disuse for long seasonal periods of duration.

“Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci

Possibilities Incomplete

Biophysical experience
Already incomplete
Inflection space

Liquid surface boundaries dynamically adjudicate to synthesize continuity.

“Human perception remains a center of receptive activity for algorithmic patterns, enacting the construction of space.” – Steve Goodman

Continuously Given

Apodictic evidence
Absolutely exclude
Eventual doubt

Small leaves accumulate in a wavy line along the shore.

“The fluidification of the Euclidean spatial matrix has resulted in the implementation of topological models of spatiality, the temporal continuity between shapes and places.” – Luciana Parisi

Grey Day

Radically genuine
Provisional dream
Seductive aberrations

An early morning walk after a night of light snow uncovers phenomenal relationships.

“Evidence is, in an extremely broad sense, an “experiencing” of something that is, and is thus; it is precisely a mental seeing of something itself.” – Edmund Husserl

Turn Down Day

Things that are
Perceptual inductions
Logical inferences

A home improvement project turns into an aesthetic experience.

“Art may seem to be in danger of being drowned by talk.” – Rudolf Arnheim

Rarefied

Winters day
Elevated above
Commonplace

Being in the right place at the right time takes effort.

“If I put myself above all this life and refrain from doing any believing that takes “the” world straightforwardly as existing, if I direct my regard exclusively to this life itself, as consciousness of “the” world I thereby acquire myself as the pure ego, with the pure stream of my cogitations.” – Edmund Husserl

Rent to Own

Interval payments
Remaining balance
Tangible property

This sign caught my eye primarily due to the color, location, and orientation.

“Real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values, and the least risk”. – Armstrong Williams

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